Inspirational Quotes by Philip Yancey
“Let me see them as thirsty people, I pray, and teach me how best to present the Living Water.”
“On the other hand, if the subject had nothing to do but think about his pain (as is true in many hospitals and nursing homes), he showed much greater sensitivity.”
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“Jesús de los Evangelios, un puente entre los seres humanos comunes y corrientes y el Dios perfecto.”
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“From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.”
“The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back.”
“Y el mundo que nos observa, juzga a Dios por aquellos que llevan su nombre. En gran medida, la desilusión con Dios brota de la desilusión con los demás cristianos.”
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“I asked whether the pain had turned those people toward God or away from God. He thought at length, and concluded that there was no common response. Some grew closer to God, some drifted bitterly away. The main difference seemed to lie in their focus of attention. Those obsessed with questions about cause (“What did I do to deserve this? What is God trying to tell me? Am I being punished?”) often turned against God. In contrast, the triumphant sufferers took individual responsibility for their own responses and trusted God despite the discomfort.”
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“Our faith rests not just on Jesus’ example but on his resurrection.”
“A lo largo de toda la Biblia, en especial en los libros de los profetas, vemos a Dios debatirse en un conflicto interno. Por una parte, amaba apasionadamente a las personas que había creado; por otra, sentía el terrible impulso de destruir al Mal que la esclavizaba. En la cruz, Dios resolvió ese conflicto interno, porque en ella su Hijo absorbió la fuerza destructiva para transformarla en amor. Citas”
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“The resurrection and its victory over death brought a decisive new word to the vocabulary of pain and suffering: temporary. Jesus Christ holds out the startling promise of an afterlife without pain. Whatever anguish we feel now will not last.”
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“Miracles may occur now and then, but for the most part ordinary pilgrims do God’s work by preaching, caring for widows and orphans, challenging society’s wrongs, and marshaling the faithful to show the world a better way to live.”
“La presencia visible de Dios no mejoró en nada su fe ni la hizo duradera.”
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“Dr. Eric Cassell, an internist at Cornell University, concluded about his patients, “If I had to pick the aspect of illness that is most destructive to the sick, I would choose the loss of control.”
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“What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is “on tap”?”
“I sometimes find a shortage of grace within the church, an institution founded to proclaim, in Paul’s phrase, “the gospel of God’s grace.”
“God uses the talent pool available. None lived without sin and embarrassing failures. Yet somehow God used them to advance the cause of the kingdom.”
“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it. ANNIE DILLARD”
“Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life,” said Roemer after the filming.”
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“the kingdom of God largely exists for the sake of outsiders, as a tangible expression of God’s love for all.”
“Thielicke gently turned his parishioners to the example of Jesus who saw like no one else the anguish and injustice, the terror, of this planet. Shouldn’t such awareness have filled his every waking hour and robbed him of sleep at night? Shouldn’t it have shaken his very soul?”
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Philip Yancey is an American Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, What's So Amazing About Grace in 1998. He is published by Zondervan Publishing.
Yancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. When Yancey was one year old, his father, stricken with polio, died after his church elders suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him. This was one of the reasons he had lost his faith at one point of time. Yancey earned his MA with highest honors from the graduate school of Wheaton College. His two graduate degrees in Communications and English were earned from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago.
Yancey moved to Chicago, Illinois, and in 1971 joined the staff of Campus Life magazine--a sister publication of Christianity Today directed towards high school and college students--where he served as editor for eight years. Yancey was for many years an editor for Christianity Today and wrote articles for Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Eternity, Moody Monthly, and National Wildlife, among others. He now lives in Colorado, working as a columnist and editor-at-large for Christianity Today. He is a member of the editorial board of Books and Culture, another magazine affiliated with Christianity Today, and travels around the world for speaking engagements.